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What is Watson doing now?

About 6 weeks ago, IBM and Jeopardy made history by pitting a computer against human Jeopardy champions to see if IBM had created software that could “understand” the context in natural language. The project is dubbed “DeepQA”. Did you see the shows? There were three Jeopardy episodes and several on the background of creating the computer Watson. You can see the replays on Youtube.

I heard a story about a case that took medical professionals 6 months to diagnose. They fed the symptoms to Watson and diagnosed the issue in less than 30 minutes. Can you imagine how helpful this will be?